Friday, February 22, 2013

“One of the very nicest things about life is the way we must regularly
stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating.”
- Luciano Pavarotti

SINGWA in Hong Kong

“Desserts are like mistresses. They are bad for you. So if you are having one,
you might as well have two.”
- Chef Alain Ducasse

CAROLINE in England

“How do they taste? They taste like more.”- H.L. Mencken

JADE in Thailand

“Tell me what you eat, I’ll tell you who you are.”- Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

LOLA in Utah

“Cookery is not chemistry. It is an art. It requires instinct and taste rather than exact measurements.”- Chef Marcel Boulestin

MADDY in NYC/NJ

“When you wake up in the morning, Pooh,’ said Piglet at last, ‘what’s
the first thing you say to yourself?’ ‘What’s for breakfast?’ said Pooh.
‘What do you say, Piglet?’ ‘I say, I wonder what’s going to happen
exciting today?’ said Piglet. Pooh nodded thoughtfully. ‘It’s the same
thing,’ he said.”
- A. A. Milne, ‘The House at Pooh Corner’

MAY in Germany

“Plain fresh bread, its crust shatteringly crisp. Sweet cold butter.
There is magic in the way they come together in your mouth to make a
single perfect bite.- Ruth Reichl

SALMA in Canada

“Life is so brief that we should not glance either too far backwards or
forwards…therefore study how to fix our happiness in our glass and in
our plate.”- Grimod de la Reynière

SONYA in The Netherlands

“The smell of good bread baking, like the sound of lightly flowing
water, is indescribable in it’s evocation of innocence and delight.”
- MFK Fisher

WANDA in Montreal

“To give life to beauty, the painter uses a whole range of colours,
musicians of sounds, the cook of tastes — and it is indeed remarkable
that there are seven colours, seven musical notes and seven tastes.”
- Lucien Tendret (1825-1896) ‘La Table au pays de Brillat-Savarin’

About This Blog

A few years ago, our founder, Lola, had an idea! She thought that it would be interesting to search out women living all around the world and ask them to collaborate on a blog where they could share our lives. She had always wanted to travel and see the world & this blog became a means to do so!

We have had the privilege of seeing Germany, Thailand, The Netherlands, Philadelphia, New Jersey/NYC, Hong Kong, Canada, and Utah through the eyes of the beautiful, smart, talented, funny women who live there. Some women have journeyed with us for a little while, others the whole distance so far, but all have left their mark here.

We post thrice weekly, on Monday, Wednesday & Friday, with our Linky-day being a Wednesday, when all our wonderful readers get to join in!

We feel that each culture, and each country, and each and every woman on the planet has positive, lovely, and wonderful things to share with those who will listen, and this blog is meant to serve as a forum for these formidably good things!

We are celebrating the everyday beauty of life and womanhood, and suspect that we will find that life is beautiful everywhere, and joy can be found in even the smallest things, such as a morning walk, a great cup of cocoa, the laugh (or mischief) of a child, a letter from someone we love, and of course, the joy of making a new, lifelong friend.

We sincerely hope that you will take this journey with us! It's not aimed at anything other than connecting, enjoying, and escaping to new and different places. Feel free to comment, ASK QUESTIONS, and start conversations! And please share a link to Communal Global on your blog (if you feel so inclined) and tell other women about it so that they can join in and share with us!